Season One Episode Guide
Episode Twenty-one
8:00pm - 9:00pm
8:00 P.M. Melanie is brought into Kim’s holding cell. She tries to pick a fight with her, but Kim avoids a confrontation.
8:03 P.M. Palmer wins the Super Tuesday Primary election, sweeping California and all eleven other states. Mike Novick's pleased that 83% of the voters approved of the way Palmer handled the Ferragamo situation.
8:06 P.M. When Jack phones Nina, Mason takes the call. Jack explains that the wildlife preserve they were in actually hides an underground detention facility where Victor Drazen's being held. Jack begs for him to send backup because Victor’s son Andre is in the midst of a rescue mission. Mason sidesteps approval from Division and orders a field unit there. When Nina asks Mason about Jack, he doesn’t give her an answer. Tony brings Teri into CTU. Teri demands to speak to Jack, but Nina fends her off. She won’t reveal anything about Jack’s current situation.
8:08 P.M. Jack and DeSalvo lead Victor Drazen down one of the underground hallways. Suddenly, an explosion blasts an entrance. Jack and DeSalvo retreat back into the facility with their prisoner.
8:14 P.M. Mason's engaged in a bureaucratic phone battle on Jack’s behalf when Teri comes into his office. Although Mason has no news about Kim, he believes that she's safe. The assassin at the safe house asked for her whereabouts. This means that they're looking for her as well. This somewhat eases Teri’s concerns.
8:17 P.M. Campaign manager Patty Brooks puts the finishing touches to Palmer’s victory speech. She tells the Senator that she admires him for standing by his principles. Patty's sure that the country will be a better place with him leading it. He's touched by her compliment.
8:19 P.M. Andre Drazen’s team enters the detention hallway to find Jack with his gun trained on Victor. Jack orders them to drop their weapons. They in turn hold DeSalvo at gunpoint. Jack relents in the standoff. As he releases Victor, Andre shoots DeSalvo anyway. Andre greets his father and tells him that there's been no word from his brother, Alexis. Victor holds Jack accountable for Alexis, and takes him hostage. He plans to use Jack as a bargaining tool against the CTU units to ensure his escape.
8:22 P.M. Melanie tries to rattle Kim as the other girls in the holding cell watch. She says that Kim gets everything handed to her. Kim turns on Melanie with such sudden ferocity that Melanie's taken aback. Kim warns that she can handle herself.
8:29 P.M. Victor confronts Jack about his seeking revenge. Jack questions where it will end after Victor has killed all his enemies. Andre brings a mobile phone with George Mason on the line. Mason tells Victor that he refuses to negotiate with him because he's a terrorist.
To prove that Jack's alive, Victor puts him on the phone. Jack quickly tells Mason that there are six men with assault weapons there. Victor jerks the phone away. Mason says that he'll have to talk to his superiors. Mason orders Tony to alert the field unit about what Jack revealed. He then has Nina pull up the layout of the detention facility.
8:31 P.M. Mason asks Nina if she's too emotionally involved to handle the case. She assures him that she can do her job.
8:32 P.M. After witnessing the near-fight, another girl in the holding cell named Lucy flicks a joint into Melanie’s lap. When the officer asks who's smoking pot, Lucy points the finger at Melanie. Kim, however, defends Melanie to the officer. Lucy pushes Kim, and the officer breaks up the tussle. As the officer removes Lucy from the cell, Melanie tells the woman that she wants to speak to the policeman who arrested her. She's ready to talk about what happened.
8:34 P.M. Jack realises that Victor sent a decoy into the blown up building in Kosovo. Since Victor knew he was a target, he put his own family at risk. Victor's full of anguish, and admits that he didn't know his family would be there. With Victor’s guard down, Jack knocks him to the floor. Yet Andre quickly grabs Jack. Victor tells Jack that on this day he will have to accept his share of the responsibility for the Drazen family deaths.
Victor orders his son to keep Jack alive. Andre then beats Jack senseless.
8:40 P.M. Patty watches as Palmer memorises his speech. He feels her looking at him and she becomes embarrassed. She says that he worries about everybody else but no one takes care of him. Patty begins to gently massage his shoulders, but Palmer stops her.
8:43 P.M. Mason finally catches up with CTU Director Ryan Chapelle. Chapelle's angry that Mason didn’t rein in Jack. Mason insists that Jack was actually effective, because Victor Drazen’s escape would have embarrassed the government. Chapelle, however, asserts that since Victor wasn’t officially acknowledged as either being alive or a prisoner, his release would have gone unnoticed. Chapelle demands that Mason immediately end the situation at the facility. Mason reluctantly passes on his orders to Nina.
8:46 P.M. Tony lets Teri know that Kim's been found at a local police station. She's being brought to CTU. Teri delivers the good news to Nina, but Nina responds with unhappy information. Jack's being held prisoner by the same group that captured her and Kimberly. Nina consoles the distraught Teri.
8:47 P.M. Nina listens in as Mason gives orders to the CTU troops descending upon the detention facility. She's alarmed when Mason tells them to apprehend Victor Drazen even if it's at the risk of losing Jack.
8:53 P.M. The policeman releases Kimberly and offers to drive her to CTU to meet her mother.
8:54 P.M. Mike Novick urges Palmer to enjoy the spoils of his victory, but he can't let go of his problems with Keith and Sherry. Novick explains that once he's in the White House, anything he wants will be fulfilled so that he can do his job.
8:55 P.M. The CTU commandos find the bodies of DeSalvo and the facility workers. There's no sign of Jack or Drazen. They may have escaped into an old sewer system, but the tunnel's trapped with laser mines. They will need half an hour to disarm them.
Meanwhile, far from the detention facility, Drazen’s troops emerge from underground with Jack in tow. Victor's about to kill Jack, when Jack offers up Alexis in return for his release. Once believing Alexis to be dead, Andre confirms that Jack may be telling the truth. Victor hesitates, but can't take a chance at his son’s expense. They allow Jack to live, and load him into the waiting car at the escape point.
8:59 P.M. The policeman drives Kimberly to CTU. She calls her mother, and they are happy to speak to each other. Kim tells her that she's on her way and they hang up. Suddenly, the squad car is smashed by a van. Three masked men speaking Serbian and brandishing assault weapons ambush the car and grab Kim.
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